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Michael Pollan our new truth-about-food hero, who has done a great deal to bring attention to the Slow Food movement and the Locavore movement, is coming to Vancouver. He is most recently credited with influencing the Obama family with planting a vegetable garden at the White House. His only stop in Canada, he will be [...]

Michael Pollan, author of ‘Omnivores Dillemma‘ and ‘In Defense Of Food,’ on NPR discussing the reasons why the US must modify its food policies given the impact of food production has on climate change, national security, energy independence and healthcare.

It’s helpful when trying to gain new perspectives on a situation to elevate the altitude of the analysis. I thought I’d apply this to the current economic crisis by considering the study of economics. Called a “social science”, economics bears similarities to other sciences in that it’s about describing coherent stories that explain what we [...]

Have you seen 192021.org? If not, take a look. It’s an interesting, and well-presented, exposition of what it calls the “defining megatrend of the 21st century”: that by 2050 more than two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities, up from 50% of the global population right now. And in 1900, it was only [...]